Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection / On-site Access: Not on view / Subject Terms: fishing

1. Newark Abbey

Creator:: Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Date:: between 1806 and 1807
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 36 x 48 1/2 inches (91.4 x 123.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

2. A River Scene with Thatched Huts by a Bridge over a Weir

Creator:: James Lambert of Lewes, 1725–1788
Date:: 1767
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/4 x 24 inches (46.4 x 61 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

3. A View of Tivoli

Creator:: Thomas Patch, 1725–1782
Date:: between 1750 and 1754
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 32 1/8 x 45 5/8 inches (81.6 x 115.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

4. Fishing Smack and Other Vessels in a Strong Breeze

Creator:: Joseph Stannard, 1797–1830
Date:: 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 12 3/4 x 17 inches (32.4 x 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

5. Discussing a Catch of Salmon in a Scottish Fishing-Lodge

Creator:: William Shiels, 1785–1857
Date:: ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 38 x 50 3/4 inches (96.5 x 128.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

6. Westminster Abbey from Tothill Fields

Creator:: John Varley, 1778–1842
Date:: 1832
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 7 1/4 x 10 inches (18.4 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

7. Windsor Castle Seen from the Thames

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1700
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 5/8 x 36 3/4 inches (67.6 x 93.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

8. A Summer Evening (Caernarfon Castle)

Creator:: Richard Wilson, 1713/4–1782
Date:: between 1764 and 1765
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 3/4 x 45 3/4 inches (62.9 x 116.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

9. Dovedale

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Date:: 1786
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 1/4 × 33 1/4 inches (64.1 × 84.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

10. The Fishery

Creator:: Richard Wright, ca. 1720–ca. 1775
Date:: ca. 1764
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 35 1/2 x 53 inches (90.2 x 134.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

11. Schloss Rosenau, Coburg

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1841 to 1844
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 38 x 49 inches (96.5 x 124.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

12. Classical Landscape

Creator:: John Wootton, 1682–1764
Date:: after 1725
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 1/8 × 16 1/4 inches (51.1 × 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

13. Two Fishing Boats on the Banks of Inland Waters

Creator:: George Chambers, 1803–1840
Date:: 1831
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 13 1/2 x 17 5/8 inches (34.3 x 44.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

14. The Browne Family

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: ca. 1778
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 3/4 × 35 inches (70.5 × 88.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

15. River Scene

Creator:: Sebastian Pether, 1790–1844
Date:: 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 1/4 × 16 1/4 inches (31.1 × 41.3 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

16. Portrait of a Family, Traditionally Known as the Swaine Family of Fencroft, Cambridgeshire

Creator:: Arthur Devis, 1712–1787
Date:: 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 1/4 × 40 3/4 inches (64.1 × 103.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

17. River Landscape

Creator:: George Barret, ca. 1728/32–1784
Date:: 1773
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 30 1/4 x 41 inches (76.8 x 104.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

18. On the Isis, Waterperry, Oxfordshire

Creator:: William Alfred Delamotte, 1775–1863
Date:: 1805
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on artist's board mounted to panel
Dimensions:: 13 1/2 x 17 inches (34.3 x 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

19. View on the Medway

Creator:: Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801
Date:: 1776
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

20. In Dovedale

Creator:: John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: 1814 to 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper mounted on panel
Dimensions:: 7 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches (19.1 x 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

21. Evening, Bayswater

Creator:: John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: 1818
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 15 1/16 × 22 7/8 inches (38.3 × 58.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

22. In Dovedale

Creator:: John Linnell, 1792–1882
Date:: 1814 to 1815
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper laid on board
Dimensions:: 9 x 6 3/4 inches (22.9 x 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

23. The Coast near Scheveningen with Fishing Pinks on the Shore

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Date:: ca. 1755
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 x 31 1/4 inches (50.8 x 79.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

24. A View of the Cathedral and City of Lincoln from the River

Creator:: Joseph Baker of Lincoln, active 1742–1770
Date:: ca. 1760
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 32 9/16 x 43 1/4 inches (82.7 x 109.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

25. A Wooded River Landscape with Fishermen

Creator:: James Arthur O'Connor, 1792–1841
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 15/16 x 20 15/16 inches (43 x 53.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

26. Thames at Lambeth Palace

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: after 1745
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/2 × 44 1/8 inches (62.2 × 112.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

27. Fishing: Playing a Fish

Creator:: William Jones, active 1832–1836
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 1/8 x 16 1/8 inches (30.8 x 41 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

28. An Angler's Catch of Coarse Fish

Creator:: Dean Wolstenholme, 1798–1882
Date:: ca. 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

29. Fishing: Bottom Fishing

Creator:: William Jones, active 1832–1836
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 12 1/8 x 16 inches (30.8 x 40.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

30. Gentlemen Fishing

Creator:: Benjamin West, 1738–1820
Date:: 1794
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on slate
Dimensions:: 12 1/8 x 17 inches (30.8 x 43.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

31. Landscape with Fishermen on a Lake

Creator:: William Hodges, 1744–1797
Date:: ca. 1790
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/2 x 24 3/8 inches (47 x 61.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

32. A Party Angling

Creator:: George Morland, 1763–1804
Date:: 1789
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 x 30 inches (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

33. A Wooded Landscape with a Stream and a Fisherman

Creator:: Thomas Smith of Derby, ca. 1720–1767
Date:: ca. 1749
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on copper
Dimensions:: 4 7/8 x 7 1/8 inches (12.4 x 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

34. The Young Anglers

Creator:: Edmund Bristow, 1787–1876
Date:: ca. 1845
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 4 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches (11.4 x 9.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

35. Scenes of Various Sporting Pursuits: Painted on a Set of Eighteen Victorian Lacquer Buttons, in Two Sized, in Tartan Covered Case

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Painted lacquer buttons
Dimensions:: Overall: 7 1/2 inches (19.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

36. Antique Letter Box Converted into a Humidor

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on wood
Dimensions:: Overall: 5 1/2 x 12 1/4 x 9 inches (14 x 31.1 x 22.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
On View:: Not on view

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1. Newark Abbey

2. A River Scene with Thatched Huts by a Bridge over a Weir

3. A View of Tivoli

4. Fishing Smack and Other Vessels in a Strong Breeze

5. Discussing a Catch of Salmon in a Scottish Fishing-Lodge

6. Westminster Abbey from Tothill Fields

7. Windsor Castle Seen from the Thames

8. A Summer Evening (Caernarfon Castle)

9. Dovedale

10. The Fishery

11. Schloss Rosenau, Coburg

12. Classical Landscape

13. Two Fishing Boats on the Banks of Inland Waters

14. The Browne Family

15. River Scene

16. Portrait of a Family, Traditionally Known as the Swaine Family of Fencroft, Cambridgeshire

17. River Landscape

18. On the Isis, Waterperry, Oxfordshire

19. View on the Medway

20. In Dovedale

21. Evening, Bayswater

22. In Dovedale

23. The Coast near Scheveningen with Fishing Pinks on the Shore

24. A View of the Cathedral and City of Lincoln from the River

25. A Wooded River Landscape with Fishermen

26. Thames at Lambeth Palace

27. Fishing: Playing a Fish

28. An Angler's Catch of Coarse Fish

29. Fishing: Bottom Fishing

30. Gentlemen Fishing

31. Landscape with Fishermen on a Lake

32. A Party Angling

33. A Wooded Landscape with a Stream and a Fisherman

34. The Young Anglers

35. Scenes of Various Sporting Pursuits: Painted on a Set of Eighteen Victorian Lacquer Buttons, in Two Sized, in Tartan Covered Case

36. Antique Letter Box Converted into a Humidor